name
Meaning 1
A female given name from English from the virtue purity.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
purity
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpjʊəɹɪti/
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Received-Pronunciation: /ˈpjɔːɹɪti/
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General-American: /ˈpjʊɹɪti/
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General-American: /ˈpjɝɪti/
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CMU ARPABET: P Y UH1 R AH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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CMU ARPABET 2: P Y UH1 R IH0 T IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
noun
Meaning 2
The state or degree of being pure.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
Examples
- The purity of the water was tested in a laboratory.
- She admired the purity of the child’s laughter.
- Gold is valued according to its level of purity.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: impurity
noun
Meaning 3
a woman's virtue or chastity
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: honor, honour, pureness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: virtue, chastity, sexual morality
noun
Meaning 4
the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: condition, status
Narrower terms: cleanness
noun
Meaning 5
being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: pureness
Antonyms: impurity
Broader terms: condition, status
Narrower terms: plainness
History
Etymology
From pure + -ity, from Old French purete, from Latin puritas.
Across languages
Translations
61 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: մաքրություն (makʻrutʻyun) — the state of being pure
- Armenian: անարատություն (anaratutʻyun) — the state of being pure
- Bulgarian: чистота (čistota) — the state of being pure
- Catalan: puresa — the state of being pure
- Chinese Mandarin: 純度 /纯度 (chúndù) — the state of being pure
- Czech: čistota — the state of being pure
- Czech: ryzost — the state of being pure
- Esperanto: pureco — the state of being pure
- Finnish: puhtaus — the state of being pure
- French: pureté — the state of being pure
- Galician: pureza — the state of being pure
- German: Reinheit — the state of being pure
- Gothic: 𐍃𐍅𐌹𐌺𐌽𐌹𐌸𐌰 (swikniþa) — the state of being pure
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌻𐌿𐍄𐍂𐌴𐌹 (hlutrei) — the state of being pure
- Greek: αγνότητα (agnótita) — the state of being pure
- Ancient Greek: ἁγνότης (hagnótēs) — the state of being pure
- Ancient Greek: ἁγνεία (hagneía) — the state of being pure
- Hebrew: טוהרה (tohorá) — the state of being pure
- Hebrew: טוהר (tóhar) — the state of being pure
- Hungarian: tisztaság — the state of being pure
- Interlingua: puritate — the state of being pure
- Irish: gile — the state of being pure
- Irish: glaine — the state of being pure
- Irish: glaineacht — the state of being pure
- Italian: purezza — the state of being pure
- Japanese: 純粋さ (junsuisa) — the state of being pure
- Khmer: ភាពបរិសុទ្ធ (phiəp-bɑɑreʼsot) — the state of being pure
- Lao: ສຸຈິ (su chi) — the state of being pure
- Lao: ສັງສຸດ — the state of being pure
- Latin: pūritās — the state of being pure
- Latvian: tīrība — the state of being pure
- Latvian: nevainība — the state of being pure
- Latvian: šķīstība — the state of being pure
- Latvian: šķīstums — the state of being pure
- Macedonian: чистота (čistota) — the state of being pure
- Malayalam: പരിശുദ്ധി (pariśuddhi) — the state of being pure
- Māori: parakoretanga — the state of being pure
- Māori: horomatatanga — the state of being pure
- Norwegian Bokmål: renhet — the state of being pure
- Old English: hlūtorness — the state of being pure
- Old English: unwemnes — the state of being pure
- Old English: sȳferness — the state of being pure
- Persian: خلوص (xolus) — the state of being pure
- Plautdietsch: Reinheit — the state of being pure
- Polish: czystość — the state of being pure
- Portuguese: pureza — the state of being pure
- Romanian: puritate — the state of being pure
- Russian: чистота́ (čistotá) — the state of being pure
- Spanish: pureza — the state of being pure
- Spanish: puridad — the state of being pure
- Swahili: usafi — the state of being pure
- Swedish: renhet — the state of being pure
- Tagalog: katagnasan — the state of being pure
- Tamil: தூய்மை (tūymai) — the state of being pure
- Tocharian B: astaräññe — the state of being pure
- Turkish: arılık — the state of being pure
- Ottoman Turkish: طهارت (tahâret) — the state of being pure
- Ottoman Turkish: تمیزلك (temizlik) — the state of being pure
- Ukrainian: чистота́ (čystotá) — the state of being pure
- Vietnamese: sự thuần khiết — the state of being pure
- Welsh: gwyryd — the state of being pure